Spaceship vycer m-32 process

For this I wanted to do something in the vein of technical drawing. First my intention was to do something very sketchy and in black and white. But things were morphing to this -cyberpunky-synthwave-something- feel:

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I sometimes use 3D models or sculptures of man-made-heavy-in-perspective objects to help with angle shot and perspective. I had this 3D sculpture:

This was sculpted in an application called 3D Coat (which is voxel based) except the "feet" or supporters. Those where done in Blender. I imported the sculpture, added some things like the feet and the ground and moved the camera around looking for a nice perspective. Took 3 shots. The first one is the picture above this paragraph and the other two these:

Added the screenshots to photochops and began tracing lines over the model image to give form to details.

Then I adjusted the brightness/contrast and painted over it following the details' forms.

I did the same for the other two shots, side and rear.

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Then added this image of the wireframe of the 3D model. Wireframe means you can see all the edges that form the model... Like if it was x-ray vision. x_x

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I thought it would be cool to show the parts inside the ship that generate power. I changed the hue of some parts and added some lines to it. Like an electrical/electronic grid.

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Because I added some colors, I thought "what if I put a couple of color gradients on top of the grey-scale drawing?" So I added the gradients on top of all the layers except the wireframe one, I liked those colors as they were.

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I repeated the gradients pass but only over the ship. With a different setting on the layer's blending mode.

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I wanted to show technical information, like specs or something about the ship. But it would be a pain to write something credible or appealing word-wise. Me not good with words. So I made the following:

1 - I copy-pasted a lorem ipsum paragraph.

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2 - Erased the top and bottom parts of each line.

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3 - Made smaller the space between each sliced line.

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4 - Copy-pasted chunks of this blob of nonsense at will. Also painted this lines that pointed to a part of the ship.

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5 - Repeated all but with bigger text to simulate like titles or important text.

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The lines of the ship drawing were plain dark until this point where I colored them a bit to make them more integrated to the overall palette.

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All vehicle concept needs some human figure standing next to it so you can imagine the size of it. That's why these little green guys appeared.

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I added in the end -in a subtle manner- a couple of text lines: the name of the ship and the date I finished the drawing.

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Added noise and lens correction filters to add grunge.

That's the story of vycer m-32 spaceship and how it came to be as it is.

Oh yes, I tried to de-saturate the colors to give it a grey-scale look I had in mind at first.

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I wanted to upload this through ntopaz but got intimidated by the post interface. I'll try it another time with a less extent post.

Also I wanted to translate each paragraph to Spanish... but didn't think it would be such a long post.. And I'm sleeping.